Restitution is not admitted where the payment was made in the performance of a barred obligation or moral obligation.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 1704
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Restitution shall nevertheless be admitted in such case where the person who made the payment had no capacity to alienate gratuitously.